In this, the first of the podcasts from the Practice of Film Criticism 2021, Harry Russell and José Arroyo sit down to discuss unappreciated 90s classic Gremlins 2: The New Batch. From the ways the film perverts the joys of the original, to the postmodern approach to referencing they cover it all; Harry trying his best to argue why it does in fact deserve to be considered high art. After all it has Gremlins launching into a rendition of ‘New York, New York’, what more does any person need?